On February 20th, Orbit will be publishing Fade to Black by Francis Knight. This debut novel has my attention piqued, so when the wonderful people at Orbit asked me if I’d be willing to post an excerpt, I gladly jumped at the opportunity. This excerpt is of the third chapter. To read the first two…

About the Book In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion ofHomo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts….

About the Book  An alternate 1895… a world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference engine. Where steam and tesla-powered computers are everywhere. Where automatons powered by human souls venture out into the sprawling London streets. Where the Ministry, a secretive government agency, seeks to control everything in the name of the Queen….

About the Book  Centuries ago, the people of Earth sent Ship into space. Deep within its core, it carried the seed of humankind… More than twenty years have passed since Ship left its children, the seed of humanity, on an uninhabited, earthlike planet–a planet they named Home. Zoheret and her companions have started settlements and…

This is a review of a trilogy. Therefore, if you’d like to learn more about each book, please click on the cover images throughout the review, which will link to the book’s Goodreads page    I enjoy running across books that haven’t received much attention. I also enjoy running across books that I enjoy a…

About the Book Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly…

About the Book Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine “Mick” McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands of Edgeland. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic of the governor’s mages keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against…

About the Book Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine…